BHS – IMPA Scholarship Assistance

The purposes of the BHS-IMPA scholarship program is to supplement BHS resources for student music activities to ensure that all students have fair and equal opportunity to participate in private music lessons, trip and other music activities. IMPA provides opportunities for students to raise their own funding through Student Account fundraisers, and offers a modest scholarship program for additional costs.

SCHOLARSHIP RULES

Scholarships may be provided for:

•Private or semi-private instrumental lessons, for the instrument played in the class in which the student is currently enrolled.

•Fees for programs, contests or travel with the class or honors program in which the student is currently enrolled

•Optional travel on larger trips with the class in which the student is currently enrolled

Scholarship Conditions

•Generally, scholarships will cover no more than 50% of any lessons, trips, or other endeavors.

•Scholarships will cover only FUTURE activities (e.g., scholarships will not cover and may not be applied to lessons already taken or trips already completed).

Scholarship Award Criteria

•Clear financial need

•Unique opportunity (e.g., scholarships are unlikely for more than one major trip)

• Evidence of student’s own efforts toward earning money via Student Account opportunities

•Evidence of student’s own efforts toward earning money through other efforts

•Evidence of parents’ contributions of effort and time toward IMPA activities and fundraisers (although a parent’s non-participation will not count against a student, a parent who has volunteered significant effort to the organization’s success will improve their student’s probability of receiving scholarship funds

APPLICATION PROCESS

Students and Parents should print out and complete a Scholarship Application Form for  Lessons or Trips. The form must be signed by the student, parent, and (if applicable) lesson teacher, and submitted to the IMPA Scholarship committee in the IMPA Mailbox in the BHS administrative offices.

Scholarship applications for lessons will be accepted on a continual basis (and remember scholarships will NOT pay for lessons already completed). Scholarship applications for trips or other music events will be due by a deadline announced in class and on the IMPA website (www.impa-bhs.org).

Scholarship applications are evaluated by the IMPA Scholarship committee, which consists of at least one IMPA officer and two parents. Scholarship decisions will be made no later than 2 weeks after submission (or deadline date). Results will be communicated to the student, the student’s parents, and (if applicable) the instrumental music teacher.

Please contact the IMPA Co-Chairs if you have any questions:

Merry Bullock 303-717-3024 (merrybullock@mac.com)

Chris Doyle 720-226-1936 (cdoy@indra.net)